Year 5 & 6 took their first steps towards becoming the next Matt Groening or Akira Toriyama yesterday as they learned and put into practice some basic coding skills using Scratch Jr.

The initial brief was to make a car move from one side of the city scene to the other. Once this was successfully created and debugged for any coding issues, the children were given free reign to be as creative as they wanted with the scene. Some chose to include further sprites, others changed the time of day by editing the background scene. Take a look at some of their work above.

Moving forwards, the children will be looking to develop, animate and debug their own original animation using Scratch Jr.